Product Description: When Diana Trujillo was little, working for NASA was her greatest dream. She loved to gaze at the stars in the sky. She also enjoyed math and art. Then she learned that engineers use math and art in their work. So Trujillo decided to be a NASA engineer...read more

Do you have friends or family members who use Facebook? That social networking website is the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg. He has helped Facebook grow into a company that has almost one and a half billion users worldwide. Zuckerberg has been interested in computers for a long time. He began writing code when he was just twelve years old. Microsoft even offered to buy one of his programs while he was still in high school. When Zuckerberg created Facebook from his college dorm room, few could have guessed it would become the multibillion-dollar company it is today. Find out how Zuckerberg became a computer programmer who forever changed the way people connect online.

Product Description: Grow your own fruits, vegetables, and flowers! Become a gardener in any season with these fun and easy projects. You don't even need a garden space—many of these activities can be done by planting in containers to set on a porch or a patio or even in a window...read more

Product Description: Ready to turn your kitchen into snack central? You can be the chef with these easy-to-follow recipes, including pigs in a blanket, cheesy fondue, chicken dippers, and apple slice sandwiches. You'll find simple drawings of important steps as well as photographs of the finished dishes...read more

Product Description: Want to cook up some yummy veggie side dishes? You can be the chef with easy-to-follow recipes such as sweet potato oven fries, crispy kale chips, sensational stuffed squash, and easy refrigerator pickles. You'll find simple drawings of important steps as well as photographs of the finished dishes...read more

Product Description: Ready to make some mouthwatering muffins, breads, and pancakes? You can be the chef with these easy-to-follow recipes, including carrot muffins, chocolaty croissants, easy honey-wheat bread, and oatmeal raisin pancakes. You'll find simple drawings of important steps as well as photographs of the finished recipes...read more

Product Description: Want to sweeten things up with some delicious cookies and bars? You can be the chef with these easy-to-follow recipes, such as molasses cookies, s'more sandwiches, Halloween brownies, and homemade granola bars. You'll find simple drawings of important steps as well as photographs of the finished recipes...read more

Product Description: Here are 34 patterns for hats, mittens, and gloves from around the globe—including stylish traditional projects from Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, the British Isles, the Americas, and Asia. Pattern introductions provide a background of knitting techniques from that part of the world, including schematics and charts...read more

A collection of holiday recipes from fifteen different countries including a variety of dishes such as Thai egg rolls, Passover layer cake, paella, and Danish rice pudding.

Product Description: One surviving cotton sock tells us that the Egyptians were knitting as long ago as the first millennium AD. Tenderly preserved shawls and sweaters bespeak our great-grandmothers handiwork. And colorful strands of yarn escaping from a basket in the corner show that the tradition lives on with us...read more

Describes how to make models of the historic, Spanish missions of California.